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Decca Music Group will release The Best of Andreas Scholl will be released internationally on 15 September which contains two titles from the “Wayfaring Stranger” disc that was produced and arranged by Craig.This is a compilation which covers the years during which Andreas’ recorded at Decca.

The recording of the London Symphnony Orchestra, conducted by Simone Pittau, performing Erich Korngold’s Symphonic Serenade in B Flat Major, op. 39 coupled with Craig’s new orchestration of the complete “Roman Sketches, op. 7 for Orchestra” by Charles Tomlinson Griffes is now available on ASV Gold in Europe. The American[…]

Harpist Julia Thornton’s Harpistry, a collection of solo classical works by Bach, Beethoven, and other composers produced and orchestrated by Craig, entered the Billboard classical chart at number 13 this week. Thornton, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, performed harp and percussion with Bryan Ferry and his band[…]

Recording has started on the sound track for the film “Maestro” starring Klausmaria Brandauer and Tom Sturridge. It is the story, set in Australia in the 1960s ,of the relationship between a piano student and his mentor. Craig is composing the underscoring as well as doing the music supervision for[…]

The “Romance of the Violin” SonyBMG Masteroworks disc featuring Joshua Bell and The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields, arranged and produced by Craig, has appeared in the Billboard top selling classical albums for the second year running. It was number 1 in 2004 and has logged in at[…]

The “Amour” CD by Natasha Marsh enters the Music Week classical chart at number 1 in it’s first week of release. “Amour” was produced and arranged by Craig and recorded at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra.